Category Archives: general

I mentioned earlier about my plans to visit Sweety in St. Louis (USA). But instead of flying via New York as I had earlier thought of, I am flying via Chicago now (yes the tickets are booked). I changed my plan because a) Mumbai-Chicago was a cheaper flight, b) from Chicago I can just take […]

Just read about a guy called Peeyush from Kota, in today’s newspaper. A convict’s son has scripted an extraordinary success story by preparing for IIT entrance exams while staying with his father in an 8×8 feet cell in an open jail in Kota for almost two years, because he did not have money for the […]

I remember when I had just started blogging (back in IIT – 2005/06), Dhakkan (and I am sure others in my hostel-wing) would tell me how obsessed I was with waiting for a new comment and then replying to it and then waiting for the next one and on and on. Nothing much has changed. […]

When the new year started, I planned to get a coffee-table book about my year 2015 in pictures, printed. It’s already almost middle of May and the book design is yet not finalized. I am so slow and lazy when it comes to personal projects – be it my wedding album (I got married in […]

I didn’t care about politics for a long time. And then Facebook happened. Which was just like Orkut in the beginning but gradually transformed to a Google Reader sort of thing with a minor (or may be major) difference. In Reader you read / viewed what you personally subscribed to (handpicked over months and years). […]

After having lived in Goa for over three years, finally ran a (half) marathon! It was a rather slow run. The first half marathon that I had run in my life (Hyderabad, 2008 or 09) had taken me less than two hours. And today as you can see, over two and a half hours! Sob! […]

Immediately after 1st of Jan, there was a two-day wedding shoot in Pune. Subbu joined me for that. I shot a movie and he worked as the candid photographer. We often switch roles in different weddings. To prevent us from getting bored. From Pune I flew to Bangalore and spent almost a week there trying […]

A year may have it’s defining moments. But for most part, our daily lives are full of ordinary, nothing special about them moments. As a photographer, any moment, defining or ordinary, has an equal potential of leading to a good image.

I write this sitting in Bangalore where I have been since past five days, trying to create two 3 minute stories (paid work). I shall fly back to Goa tomorrow morning and before it’s too late, let me look back and reflect on the year that just went by. December was especially too fast to […]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT6QJaS2a-U I saw this movie in the recently concluded Mumbai Film Festival. Anamoly + Lisa. From a stop-motion point of view, it’s an incredible visual language. What I don’t understand is, the need to create a stop motion movie for a story like this, in the first place! Anamolisa is a smart, intelligent and certainly, […]